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(No Model.) 3 SheetsSheet 1. S. WRIGHT. MECHANISM FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF GASKS, BARRELS, AND

THE LIKE.

No. 452,629. Patented May 19,1891.

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MECHANISM FOR THE MANUFACTURE F CASKS,'BARRELS, AND THE LIKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 452,629, dated May 19, 1891.

I Application filed April 21, 1890. Serial No. 348,886. (No model.) Patented in England February 29, 1888, No. 3,092; in Germany May 8,1888,N0.4=5,900 in France August 23,1888, 110.18%),317; in Belgium August 24:. 1888, No. 83.007, and in Spain December 26, 1888, No. 8,802.

. To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL WRIGHT, machinist, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at 96 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, in the county of Lanark, Scotland, have invented Improvements in Mechanism Relating to the Manufacture of Casks,

Barrels, Box Barrels 0r Packages, and such.

like Articles, of which the followingis aspeoi- 1o fication. I 7

Patents have been obtained for said invention in Great Britain, No. 8,092, dated February 29, 1888 5 in France, No.189,317, dated August 23, 1888, Patent of Addition to No. [5 189,317, dated March 13,1888; in Belgium, No. 83,007, dated August 24, 1888, Patent of Addition to No. 81,025, dated March 14:, 1888; in Spain, No. 8,802, dated December 26, 1888, and in Germany,No. 45,900, dated May 8,1888. This invention has reference to improvements in and relating to the manufacture of casks, barrels, box barrels or packages, and such like articles, and in'the mechanism or appliances therefor, and comprises new or 2 5 improved combinations of mechanism and appliances for setting up, gathering, or compressing the staves together and putting on the upper temporary truss-hoops on the barrels or box barrels. 0 In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention relates to understand how it maybe carried into practical have here- 1 unto appended three explanatory sheets of drawings, in which the same reference-letters 3 5 are used to indicate corresponding parts in all the figures where shown.

Figurel on Sheet 1 is an elevation, partly in section, of my new or improved portable mechanism for setting up or gathering and 4c compressing the staves into the shape of a barrel or box barrel; and Fig. 2 is a plan as taken on the line 1 1 of Fig. 1 with the top cover D removed. Fig.3 on Sheet2 repre sents an elevatiompartly in section, showing the compressing portable sectional-frame B B and arrangement of swiveling leverF and counter-weights f for operating same to a smaller scale than in Figs. 1 and 2, and showing the swiveling lever H for actuating the branding-stamp H. Fig. 4 on Sheet 8 is plan view taken on the line 2 2, Fig. 3'; and Figs. 5 and 6 show sectional views of an oval barrel and a box-barrel, respectively.

Referring to the drawings the improvements of my invention consist all as follows: Under one construction or arrangement and combination of the parts shown in these drawings my new or improved stave setting up or gathering and compressing mechanism consists of a portable open vertical frame work of fourstandards A A and A A, having secured byflanges a attheir lower ends a conoidal compressor formed of sections or segments B B B B, of plate or sheet metal, so that the whole of the sections form an open conoidal metallic casing overlapping and working over each other at their ends 13", with pins and moving slotted holes at B in the segments B B and B B made approximately to the shape in plan of the barrel or box barrel-that is, round for round casks, oval for oval oasks, and approximately rectangular with rounded corners for square or rectangular barrel cases, as shown, respectively, in Figs. 4, 5, and 6 on Sheet 3, and of an angle as, say, from fortyfive to thirty degrees off the vertical line, as shown in sharp and dotted lines in Fig. 1, thus enabling the same mechanism with dif ferent-shaped conoidal sections B B to an swer for gathering and compressing various sizes and shapes of barrels or box barrels. The standards A A and A A of these movable sections B B B B are secured at their upper ends a to slide rack bars or plates C O and O O, the two opposite bars O O working parallel to each other at right angles to those 0 O of the other two standards in a different plane close over each other. These rack-' bars 0 and 0' project inward and their teeth 0 gear into or mesh with a single spur-wheel o c, or a spur-Wheel c to each pair of rack-bars O O and O O, mounted on a vertical spindle 0 passing through the boss D of the horizontal cross-armed frame D, carrying the whole and forming slide-guides for the re- 5 ciprooating arms 0 O, with retaining-covers D". On the lower end of this spindle O a screw-Wheel d is mounted,which is rotated by a worm-wheel d on a horizontal shaft (1 carried in bearing-blocks D attached to the un- [0O one central spur-Wheel e and screw-spindle G and balanced by a counterweight, substan- C by one" screw wheel and spindle d (1 subtially as herein described. stantially as described. In testimony whereof I have signed my 2. In mechanism for gathering and comname to this specification in the presence of 5 pressing staves into the shape of casks or bartwo subscribing witnesses.

rels and box barrels or packages, the means for raising, lowering, and swiveling the com- SAMUEL WRIGHT. pressing sectional frame B B, and compris- Witnesses: ing the combination of a beam-lever F, ful- JOHN SIME,

IO crumed and swiveled on a vertical standard R. O. THOMSON. 

